Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: poopster on January 31, 2003, 05:10:12 PM
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This game has it's options..
Here I was in a "meet in the middle" fight, flying and dying having a good time. Opposition dropped off as a horde of goodguys flew by on the way to the enemy field.
I got a half load of fuel, nobody left to fight, so off I go to see what's up.
When I get there, their all flying around the field..
TAKING TURNS SHOOTING PLANES TAKING OFF !!!
Well hey, I LIKE IT, that might work. Haven't thought of it before. Have a guy taking off, he can't do squat, shoot his soggy bellybutton and line up for the next...
The hell with this "fighting" thing...
I could make this a profession.
So I ask who is at the end of the line cuz I want to be polite and not take "cuts" but no one answers. After asking a few times without answers I figure it's whoever sees them first..
So with my eyes rivited on the end of the runway I yell DIBS on vox when the con spawned and dive at him..
Someone else kills him..
No problem, he probably didn't hear me so I line up again. Con spawns I yell DIBS and two other guys kill him..
Ok..
I see how it is, rules of the jungle. I spend the next 5 minutes being second or third to the guy taking off.
I'm timing my turns and finding a cycle of the takeoffs...Getting into "the flow"..
Coming down fast and at last, I'm FIRST IN LINE !!!
I close in six fifties blazing and shoot a circular ring around the con with the dirt flyin all around him on his roll... I'm at 100 yards drawing pretty circles on the runway when a guy comes in from the side and kills him...
When he flew past I pinged him and removed MY left elevator....
I'm fast, I barely miss the explosion and kiss the runway on my pullout..
I'm pulling like hell to raise the nose..
Ever so slowly my nose comes up..
Just as a Tiffy spawns at the other end of the runway...
Guns blazing..
And takes off my wing......
Fogitabotit, it's tough down there, goin back to fighting.
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wulch, wulch
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ROFLMAO! Live and learn brother, or in this case die and learn. Been there done that, and bought several T-shirts.
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Competative vulching is an art form :D
Gatso
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:D :D :D :D
Tatical Officer
99TH ASTAG
Swift to Avenge
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...see, now that was what you would call a gang-bang vultch. these are not so much fun. you pretty much gotta have perfect timing and a cannon bird to get the kills.
what you want is 2-3 friends vultching 3-5 spawners. big fun and high kill numbers here, but you can't follow a gaggle in. ya pretty much have to set it up yourself by killing ack and other nastiness.
good trick here: over vox say, "let's all in on the ack at once so we can vultch this field.", then watch them deack it for you. works great on other fdb's.
also, you have to give the spawners the feeling that they almost made it, otherwise they go to another field or up in GV's. best to kill VH early to deny this option.
its an art and a science.
F.
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OK, it's official... you're the worst vulchist ever :)
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Instant classic
Drex
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ROFLMBO! Good one poop!
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Hehe nopoop.. I rarely vulch for those specific reasons. I just can't seem to manage to get at the head of the line without compressing, and plowing right down into the runway behind.. or sometimes in front... of the guy I'm supposed to be shooting down. :) And then everybody laughs at me. :)
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Vulchfests are kind of like tornadoes: you can see the conditions for them starting to form, and issue "Vulch Watches" and "Vulch Warnings", but when they touch ground and how long they go for is a difficult thing to predict.
Once in the maelstrom, it's all about timing. Also, be sure to call the following on range channel:
vulchcap: stack friendly fighters from the deck to 20k, to interdict takeoffs and stuff coming from other fields.
tight vulch: all fighters on the deck, over the field, in the vulch pattern.
good inbound: all fighters fly towards the C-47 and drag the remaining vulchees to the hapless transport. If the goon gets to the field, the fun's over.